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Sir Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, 10th Baronet (1877–1945) was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served in the Second Boer War with The Rifle Brigade with distinction, for which he received the Distinguished Service Order. He rose to the rank of Colonel and was the British ...
Montgomery-Cuninghame was born in Ayr to Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 8th Baronet of Corsehill and Charlotte Niven D. Hutcheson, the eldest of seven children. [1] Between April 1849 and 1851 he was educated at Harrow School .
His father was Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet V.C. [1] He was educated at Sandroyd School, Eton College [2] (where he served with the Eton Volunteers) and then entered Sandhurst although he had not expected to pass the entrance exams. [3] On the death of his father in 1897, he became the 10th Baronet of Corsehill. [3]
In 1832 Sir Thomas Montgomerie-Cuninghame of Corsehill and Kirton-holme (near Lanark) was the eighth baronet, marrying Charlotte Niven Doig Hutchison, grand-niece of William Niven of Maybole, who left her much of his wealth, [9] this being over £100,000. [2] Sir William James Montgomery Cuninghame was the ninth baronet of Corsehill and ...
However, in modern times the chief of the clan is Cunningham of Corsehill. On 18 December 2013, Sir John Christopher Foggo Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet of Corsehill, was recognized by Lord Lyon as Clan Chief after the chiefship had been vacant for over 200 years.
Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill: 1672: Montgomery-Cuninghame: extant: for Sir Alexander Cuningham, 1st Baronet, of Corsehill (d.1685) Cunynghame of Milncraig: 1702: Cunynghame: extant: Curzon of Kedleston: 1636: Curzon: extant: First Baronet also created an English Baronet in 1641. Fifth Baronet created Baron Scarsdale in 1761.
Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary to prove a claim of succession.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...